If you're thinking all this expertise comes at a high cost, you will probably be pleasantly surprised. Cost efficiency is our mantra, plus, while our service is national, we're based in Adelaide, so our charge out rates compare very favourably with many large Adelaide and interstate firms.

However, where you're most likely to save money is in time. Brief Mark and he can hit the ground running as he knows the industry, has deep personal business experience in the sector and understands its peculiar ways and foibles. He may even shed a business insight along the way.

Mark's unrivalled wine industry experience

Mark Hamilton is a strategically insightful commercial lawyer with great depth of experience in the wine industry. He comes from South Australia's founding family, was a director of a major wine company at 21 and has acted on an extensive range of wine industry and grape growing matters for over 30 years.

Mark also runs his own grape growing and winery operation, Hamilton's Ewell Vineyards, with interests across the Barossa Valley, Wrattonbully and the Lower Murray.

Mark Hamilton's industry clout is well recognised. He has contributed to Australian & New Zealand Grapegrower & Winemaker magazine, Australian Vignerons Magazine and has written regular wine columns and reviews for the Law Society Bulletin. Browse these articles below.

"Mark Hamilton's strategy was innovative and effective. The way Mark approached our particular dispute was to create enough doubt in the mind of the receiver of the distributor that they tended to take Mark's advice over that of their own lawyers."